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definitely agree (from my limited, but expanding knowledge) with this basic idea. overall, i would calling it a family-distro might be a better way to look at it; that is christianity will likely lead you down a better path. 'the right one' seems to always come down to individual parishes and experiences (pray about it) but otherwise the nitty-gritty details between them outside the overall 'jesus is the way, truth, and life' seems less important for the underlying idea of salvation given both catholics and orthodox generally state that the big man and the son have the final say anyway. so the which distro where it's mostly choices made along the way (the way has been a hot 2 thousand years). similar to bsd, maybe, still a unified structure but specific choices per distro. linux is to disparate of choices for the system, but christianity is a monolith being a monarchic system. if you make too many changes it ceases being that initial thing;and there are quite a few christianities that have done just that, but not most of the three listed albeit protestants likely have more watered down versions that cross that line more often.

Are there any games out there that integrate nostr for anything useful? 👀 We now have apps that do many different things already, but any games that aren't using it like chess by mail?

Seems like a lot of things are down right now, or something, based on all the posts mentioning something about it. I haven't felt any issues >_> can't figure out if this a me not using those things or me using too many decentralized things already <_<

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Not necessarily fiction, but narrative! Narrative vs Empiric is the split you may be thinking - Peterson underlines this from a narrative viewpoint and how narrative/story undergirds thought and culture patterns, from which math and physics attempt to detangle themselves and where most people get lost along the way. Picturing Quantum Processes by Bob Coecke & Aleks Kissinger shows a nice diagrammatic system that scales between the maths/phsyics/comp sci/language and after the math/diagrams they break down how it relates to each field. I would recommend Maps of Meaning by Jordan Peterson and Picturing Quantum Processes by Bob Coecke & Aleks Kissinger

what did you do that got your account on x suspended?

kinda what i figured you meant, thanks for clarifying. worth the giggle.

not sure what that is about but made me giggle

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As I spent time on the dock staring at Andrey Melnichenko's beautiful sailing yacht, I tried explaining to my friends how interrelated these two two things were, as I had been in country for 2 weeks and not once had I seen the coin that was supposed to represent the value of a cent in Europe.

To be fair, I have only now been to one country in Europe but that should not change the fact that either the Euro is becoming so meaningless that the cent is not commonly used or that European countries vary so significantly in economy that some countries will discount the cent and round to the nearest 5 and others not.

My friend was kind enough to gift me a €0.01 cent coin later on in the day (after returning to their place and having to look for it), which told me they do in fact exist - I was jokingly complaining that it was a ruse.

I'd be happy to learn if other countries in Europe utilize the cent more. In the meantime, here's the boat so you can think about it a while to.

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Going all in on Bitcoin was the most important decision of my life. Not for the money it would become, nor for the purpose and meaning that it would deliver to me, but because it was a decision that was truly mine.

The whole world and everyone in it has ideas of who you are suppose to be, and most of the time we conform with that in some way or another. While I did not know it at the time, I knew in my heart of hearts that Bitcoin not only had a chance to save me from a life of mind-numbing pointless work, and nihilistic existence; but more than that, it allowed for me to believe in what I saw for myself, and my own understand of it before what everyone else was telling me. It let me stand up for myself against a world that just wanted to use me and keep me in the suppressed, small role it had relegated to me. Bitcoin allowed for me to decide something else against this system that could not see the light and love that I really am.

This decision came from my own strong conviction within myself that I knew from the deepest levels within me. Even though it seemed crazy, irrational, and like it wouldn’t work to everyone else; just like most major decisions that can change your life for the better, I knew it was what I had to do for myself. There are no other people who can make these kind of decisions for you, and that is why they are them in their lives and you are you in your life. Only you can make the decision for yourself about how your life is going to be, where you are going to put your energy and how you are going to save yourself against a world that wants to exploit you like a machine, and give you worthless paper in exchange for it. You can choose something else now, but that decision is on you alone.

While I cannot promise that you’ll get rich from Bitcoin, or even that it will be a profitable decision with your timing of the markets, you will learn to have a new kind of conviction and faith in yourself which is a kind of wealth in its own right. You will learn that you can decide to take a risk on your own thoughts and decisions, and that is worth something in and of itself.

Just some food for thought going into 2025.

live from first principles - choose your own adventure and make sure it's your own. this is the way.

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Getting away from things is great for recharging before getting back at it to publish something you've been working on instead of doing it after.

If you publish and leave, you may feel accomplished but you get back to all the problems.

If you leave and publish when back, you can prepare yourself to tackle the next big thing without needing to react to a list of things that may have already been found.

Everyone gets to deal with life as they wish but I think I prefer the break prior to, when most of the work is done, so when you come back you get a fresh glance before publication, in case I may have missed something big in the initial push to get it done.